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"Good sense is a judicious mechanic, who can produce beauty and convenience out of suitable means; but Genius (I speak with reverence of the immeasurable distance) bears some remote resemblance to the divine architect, who produced perfection of beauty without any visible materials, 'who spake, a...Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23035
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23035"Good sense has not so piercing an eye, but it has as clear a sight: it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far as it does see, it discerns distinctly."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23034
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23034"As it is the character of Genius to penetrate with a lynx's beam into unfathomable abysses and uncreated worlds, and to see what is not, so it is the property of good sense to distinguish perfectly, and judge accurately what really is."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23033
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23033"Good sense is a bank-bill, convenient for change, negotiable at all times, and current in all places."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23032
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23032"To conclude; Genius is a rare and precious gem, of which few know the worth; it is fitter for the cabinet of the connoisseur, than for the commerce of mankind."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23031
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23031"When a nation begins to emerge from a state of mental darkness, and to strike out the first rudiments of improvement, it chalks out a few strong but incorrect sketches, gives the rude out-lines of general art, and leaves the filling up to the leisure of happier days, and the refinement of more e...Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23030
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23030"People do not always know what taste they have, till it is awakened by some corresponding object; nay, genius itself is a fire, which in many minds would never blaze, if not kindled by some external cause."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23029
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23029"He must invigorate them by exercise, polish them by conversation, and increase them by every species of elegant and virtuous knowledge, and the mind will not fail to reproduce with interest those seeds, which are sown in it by study and observation."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23028
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23028"The mind, says he, is a barren soil, is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized, and enriched with foreign matter."Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23027
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23027"But though this inevitable alloy of weakness may frequently be found in the best characters, yet how can that be the source of triumph and exaltation to any, which, if properly weighed, must be the deepest motive of humiliation to all?"Work: Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23026
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